Wheeee! Now when you punch a goblin, you generate Hit Sparks! For those wondering what the heck those are, I accidentally included them in the download (even though they aren't used in the game). See the 6 bitmaps in the Sprites folder named HitSparks*.bmp ....

http://www.geocities.com/chrisrbarry/HitSparks.gif

Well, that's my particle engine down. Time to finalize that collision reaction, methinks ....

Exactly. As long as what I've got works well for the game, realism can kiss my Royal Canadian Arse

(Though almsost completely off topic) Of course you can't! It's a binary thing. Floats are funky 'lil bastards. The number 255, for example, would be represented as 11111111, as an 8-int, but a float would look much different (so different I don't even know how it would be represented ). To get a better understanding of this, use "%d" in a 'printf' when printing a float. You get the idea . So when you do "float >> n" it would give you a wild and unpredictable result, which is useless to everybody, because of the nature of floats. Since ints are plain binary numbers, however, it can be done with the results being completely predictable.

-Sven

Well. You can DL a trial version of PSP (I believe I went past the time limit and still was able to use it, at least with PSP 5). It works fine for converting color modes. But I still think you're gonna have to make a global palette so all the sprites won't be screwed up and stuff when you load them in.

hey, nice demo.
How did you implement the moving blocks / platforms collision wise?

With great difficulty Characters have a CPlatform* footing variable which keeps track of what they're standing on, and objects keep a private list of objects that are close (CPlatforms have pointers to CGameObjects and vice versa). When platforms move, they check their local list for objects using it as footing and moves it with them. Bounding box collisions take care of pushing and crushing when the platform can't be jumped through. I still have to iron out some stuff, and I'm not sure if there's any better ways to do it ....

I'm not on the UT team, so I couldn't say But my resolution is four times UT's, and it's in 16 bit; it'll run faster if I can get it working in 8 bit.

(320x240) x (2x2) = (640, 480) In any case, it runs about fast enough now. I'll worry about further speed optimizations down the road. And I honestly don't know why there would be such a speed difference, though I'm sure the UT guys really know their stuff (and I don't )

I tried 8 bit; the fps went from 50 to 60. I wasn't that impressed. It's running fast enough for the time being; like I said, I'll worry about further speed optimizations down the road. And I probably will need the extra colors when it's all said and done.

Just now? You said "well done" earlier ....

I have a very specific project in mind, of my own creation. I might make a Transformers one for the heck of it, but it's not where my mind is right now.

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No; it's an original game of my own creation. Not based on anything.

You know it's a good demo when a Depot thread on it hits 68 posts. That's 23 posts 3 times over (counting the first one ) My Goblins are taking hits and turning to face the player when they do. By the end of the day I should have the health/damage worked out and actually be able to kill a few. Also, hitting the "G" button spawns a new goblin at mouse_x, mouse_y. So there's going to be some heavy goblin genocide, yessiree ....

Yeah; you're playing the wrong demo I was just reporting on my progress here; wait until next time ....

I just got finished cursing at the single most infuriating bug I've ever had. Have you ever accidentally re-declared a variable in a class derived from a class derived from a class with the exact same variable? Grrrr ....

This is trivial. I could make a track on the background tilemap (when it gets one) or have a chain link the platform to the point it's revolving around or whatever. That last one might be a trick, but it's doable, no sweat.

I would like to make this for profit, so I'm undecided on releasing the source. I don't want you stealing my game on me! At the barest minumum, there will be a succession of Pixelate articles on the how-to's of different parts of the engine.

So am I I'll make a free demo of one level, which I recommend trying just to make sure your 'puter can handle it before you actually pay. And like I think I said way above, I have several games planned featuring other characters (Transformers, for example) which I will of course not charge for. I might release a generic platformer with source and editors just for people to play with and learn from, but I'm a long way from that ....